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A Healthy Gut Has A Direct Affect Over Women's Sex Lives and Weight Loss

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 22:32
Submitted by Eric Amaranth

Once again, I write blog posts like these to show that there's more to sex advice and incredible sex than how to do it better. All the hot sex skills and sophistication in the universe won't matter if you have health issues that put a stop to your sex life, or make it not what it could be. A sex therapist and a sex life consultant would be clear on that.

Here is a link to a thorough article on how your gut (small intestine) and its state of healthy bacterial vs unhealthy has a big effect on your sex life. From things that make you lose your sex drive, like Irritable Bowel Syndrome, or IBS, chronic urinary tract infections in women, and vaginitis. Recurrent urinary tract infections are one of the worst dampeners to enjoying intercourse, as many women and their partners know. This indicates that in addition to some genetic differences between women, the state of their bacterial environment in the gut has a big impact on the immune system, which handles low grade infections before they blow up into monsters. If you have recurrent UTI's, I urge you to read the article above.

Other info in the article covers some things I'd never heard yet. Namely, the bacteria in a overweight person's gut is more efficient at extracting calories from food than a normal to fit person's bacteria. That was fascinating.

The article also describes ways to fix the bacterial environment in your gut using natural probiotics in food form. It suggests making your own saurkraut, but let me get a show of hands-- who has time and/or interest to do that? (The saurkraut at the supermarket is dead. So dont bother.) My solution is to get it at my local farmer's market. The farmers love spending their time growing and making saurkraut, and for 5.00 a jar, it's a supercheap and effective solution. I eat some every morning with breakfast. I also like fermented green beans. You dont have to eat a ton of it, just a few fork fulls a day. I remember reading a study once where Polish women who went to the United States and left behind access to homemade fermented vegetables had more health problems than those that stayed in the old country and kept eating it.

Also, here's where the site above was nominated by the Huffington Post for a wellness award.

 

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I take probiotics and enzyme

Sat, 11/14/2009 - 06:51
nooneknows1028

I take probiotics and enzyme pills with every meal at my chiropracter's encouragement. Pills are easier for me than to eat sauerkraut or fermented green beans, and are more convenient. I don't feel bloated as often, and seem to have more energy now. I was pretty surprised that I lacked the necessary bacteria to properly break down my food, but I was on antibiotics for a while. I had a chronic strep infection that wouldn't go away, so a few months of antibiotics was probably a major factor in that. Overall, the pills that I am taking seem to be taking an effect, although I suppose that it may just be acting as a placebo.

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